Estimating frequency of disease findings from combined hospital databases: a UMLS project

L S Fu; S Huff; O Bouhaddou; B Bray; H Warner

Estimating frequency of disease findings from combined hospital databases: a UMLS project

Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1991:373-7.

Authors

L S Fu¹, S Huff, O Bouhaddou, B Bray, H Warner

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.

PMID: 1807625
PMCID: PMC2247557

Abstract

Merging data from the Salt Lake VA hospital database and the LDS hospital HELP system into a UMLS sponsored unified patient database has demonstrated that distribution of variables within a disease is hospital independent. Although disease prevalence is clearly not the same among hospitals, analysis of data within a disease group across hospitals can be done using such a merged database. This unified patient database would allow study of unusual diseases not possible using data from a single institution.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Databases, Factual*
Epidemiologic Methods*
Hospital Information Systems*
Medical Records Systems, Computerized*
Unified Medical Language System*
Utah

Grants and funding

N01-LM-8-3515/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States